Job title: Dairy Cattle Farmer

Company: D.J SKINNER & J.J SKINNER & THE TRUSTEE FOR SKINNE

Expected salary: $60000 – 70000 per year

Location: Dubbo, NSW – Orana, WA

Dairy Cattle Farmer Job Details:

DJ Skinner & JJ Skinner & Skinner Family Trust, trading as Skinner Partnership is a 4000acre dairy farm located appoximately 3km south of Dubbo. We milk 700 cows, twice a day on a 60 cow rotary.

About the role

The Dairy Cattle Farmer role is a full time position that offers job security.

The position involves all day to day work of our dairy farm operation.

The applicant would always be working with or under the supervision of a family member and joining a staff of 10 others.

This role includes all aspects of milk production including:

management and coordination of the milking shed routine

implementation and monitoring of quality assurance procedures ensuring compliance through current and relevant documentation

supervising of the animal health programs ensuring optimal environments as outlined in the Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines – Cattle.

implementation of calving procedures

implementation of livestock feeding plans including maintenance of pastures and crops

operating of plant and machinery, including 4 wheel bikes and tractors.

Skills and experience

We require the applicant to have the following capabilities and experience to:

implement milking systems, animal herd health and reproductive systems

operate all farm machinery and report if equipment/farm infrastructure requires servicing and general maintenance

implement livestock feeding plans

implementation of animal health programs. Examples of which include calving cows, tubing colostrum to calves, identifying and treating mastitis, sore eyes and general herd well-being

Experience with using herd management programs such as easy dairy.

For this full time position we expect the applicant would have 1 – 3+ years recent working experience, good English including spoken, written and mathematical ability and the ability to work as part of a team.

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